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Persuasion (Everyman's Library)

by Jane Austen

ISBN13: 9780679409861
ISBN10: 0679409866
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Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.

Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell in love with–and was engaged to–a naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded, against her profoundest instinct, to give him up.Now, at twenty-seven, and believing that she has lost her bloom, Anne is startled to learn that Captain Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood, a rich man and still unwed. Her never-diminished love is muffled by her pride. He seems cold and unforgiving. Even worse, he appears to be infatuated by the flighty and pretty Louisa Musgrove.

What happens as Anne and Wentworth are thrown together in the social world of Bath–and as an eager new suitor appears for Anne–is touchingly and wittily told in a masterpiece that is also one of the most entrancing novels in the English language.

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“Critics, especially [recently], value Persuasion highly, as the author’s ‘most deeply felt fiction,’ ‘the novel which in the end the experienced reader of Jane Austen puts at the head of the list.’ . . . Anne wins back Wentworth and wins over the reader; we may, like him, end up thinking Anne’s character ‘perfection itself.’” –from the Introduction by Judith Terry

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Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Introduction by Judith Terry

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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxviii-xxix).

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: yvonne.gonzalez, June 5, 2008 (view all comments by yvonne.gonzalez)
anything by jane austen is a wonderful piece of literature and being only one of the six that she has written in her lifetime, i feel that it should be snatched up and gobbled immediately.
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780679409861
Introduction:: Terry, Judith
Author:: Conrad, Peter
Illustrator:: Terry, Judith
Author:: Austen, Jane
Author:: Conrad, Peter
Publisher:: Everyman's Library
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: Classics
Subject:: Novels and novellas
Subject:: Literature
Subject:: British and irish fiction (fictional works by
Subject:: Man-woman relationships
Subject:: England
Subject:: British and irish
Subject:: Young women
Subject:: Love stories
Subject:: Humorous fiction
Subject:: Humorous Stories
Edition Description:: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Series:: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
Series Volume:: 31
Publication Date:: June 1992
Binding:: Hardcover
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 304
Dimensions:: 818x526x95 101

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